{"id":41391,"date":"2019-10-08T11:18:13","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T09:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/teni-burna-boy-among-others-nominated-for-the-2019-mtv-emas\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:34:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:34:08","slug":"2019-mtv-ema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/2019-mtv-ema\/","title":{"rendered":"Teni, Burna Boy, among others nominated for the 2019 MTV EMAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30384 pam-featured-content\"  src=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Burna-Boy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Burna-Boy.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Burna-Boy-759x427.jpg 759w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Burna-Boy-1010x568.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Burna-Boy-661x372.jpg 661w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Burna-Boy-465x262.jpg 465w, https:\/\/pan-african-music-production.fra1.digitaloceanspaces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Burna-Boy-375x211.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(min-width:1010px) 759px,100vw\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>With Nasty C, Prince Kaybee and Harmonize.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nigerian supers<span style=\"color: #333333;\">tars <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/teni\/\">Teni<\/a> and <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/burna-boy\/\">Burna Boy<\/a> have been nominated in the Best African Act at the MTV European Music Awards (EMA). Recognized for their immense artistic achievements in the year under review, the duo of Nigerian artistes are joined by four other African artistes.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">Nasty C and Prince Kaybee, are both from South Africa, budding Tanzanian artiste Harmonize also makes list; from Togo, the duo of Toofan step up to challenge for the prestigious award.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Notable artistes such as 2Baba, (who was the first recipient in 2005) <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/sauti-sol\/\">Sauti Sol<\/a>, D\u2019Banj, and <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/davido\/\">Davido<\/a> have won the award; last year, the remarkable <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tag\/tiwa-savage\/\">Tiwa Savage<\/a> made history<\/span> by becomi<span style=\"color: #333333;\">ng <a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/tiwa-savage-best-african-act-mtv\/\">the first woman<\/a>\u00a0 to<\/span> win the award.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 2019 MTV EMAs will be held at the FIBES Conference and Exhibition Centre in Seville, Andalusia, Spain, on 3 November 2019. This will be the fourth time, as well as the second consecutive year, that Spain hosts the awards show. It will be the first time that a country hosts back-to-back editions of the award show.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Watch next:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #333333;\" href=\"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/15-music-videos-september\/\">September\u2019s 15 best music videos<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Nasty C, Prince Kaybee and Harmonize. Nigerian superstars Teni and Burna Boy have been nominated in the Best African Act at the MTV European Music Awards (EMA). 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